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Alaska Administrative Code
Title 07 . Health and Social Services
Chapter 50 . Community Care Licensing

Chapter 50. Community Care Licensing

Section 5 . Applicability
Section 10 . Exemptions from licensure requirements
Section 15 . Voluntary licensure; no license issued for certain exempt facilities
Section 20 . Implementation
Section 25 . Timeframes
Section 30 . Application for license
Section 35 . Application for foster home license
Section 40 . Inspections and evaluations by organizations or individuals
Section 45 . (Deleted)
Section 50 . Provisional foster home license issued under emergency conditions
Section 55 . Variances for foster care by relatives
Section 60 . Self-monitoring reports
Section 100 . Responsibilities of a governing body in residential child care facilities
Section 110 . Administrator or foster parent
Section 120 . Facility operation and management
Section 130 . Records
Section 140 . Reports
Section 200 . Qualifications of administrator
Section 210 . Qualifications and responsibilities of persons having regular contact with children in a facility
Section 220 . Caregiver age requirements and additional qualifications for adolescent caregivers
Section 230 . Additional staff qualifications in residential child care facilities
Section 240 . Supervision of employees
Section 250 . Orientation and training
Section 300 . Admission
Section 310 . (Deleted)
Section 320 . Admission in residential child care facilities
Section 330 . Assessment and treatment plan in residential child care facilities
Section 340 . Discharge in full time care facilities
Section 400 . Supervision of children
Section 405 . (Deleted)
Section 410 . Supervision of children; child-to-caregiver ratios in residential child care facilities
Section 415 . Supervision of children in foster homes
Section 420 . (Deleted)
Section 425 . Program in residential child care facilities
Section 430 . Program in foster homes
Section 435 . Behavior guidance
Section 440 . Medication
Section 445 . Reducing the spread of disease
Section 450 . (Deleted)
Section 455 . Health in full time care facilities
Section 460 . Nutrition
Section 500 . Effect of local ordinances
Section 510 . Life and fire safety
Section 520 . Environmental health and safety
Section 530 . Space
Section 540 . Equipment and supplies
Section 600 . Approval of specializations
Section 605 . (Deleted)
Section 610 . Emergency shelter care in full time care facilities
Section 615 . Emergency shelter care for runaway children in residential child care facilities
Section 620 . Shelter home care for runaway children
Section 625 . Wilderness and adventure experiences in residential child care facilities
Section 630 . Boarding care in foster homes
Section 635 . Boarding care in residential child care facilities
Section 640 . Supervised transition living in full time care facilities
Section 645 . Care for pregnant and parenting adolescents in full time care facilities
Section 650 . Substance use treatment facilities
Section 700 . Applicability
Section 710 . Short term prematernal care
Section 720 . Training
Section 730 . Admission and planning
Section 740 . Care and services
Section 750 . Services regarding paternal involvement
Section 760 . Parenting education
Section 770 . Health
Section 780 . Discharge and aftercare
Section 790 . Safety precautions
Section 800 . Applicability
Section 805 . Secure and semi-secure residential psychiatric treatment centers
Section 810 . Qualifications of medical, clinical, and other staff
Section 815 . Qualifications of caregiver staff
Section 820 . Orientation and training
Section 825 . Admission
Section 830 . Admission to secure care
Section 835 . Release from secure care
Section 840 . Assessment and treatment plan in residential psychiatric treatment centers
Section 845 . Continued treatment
Section 850 . Discharge planning
Section 855 . Discharge
Section 860 . Independent review of extended periods of treatment or stays in secure care
Section 865 . Child-to-caregiver ratios in residential psychiatric treatment center facilities
Section 870 . Behavior management
Section 875 . Medication
Section 880 . Resident grievances
Section 885 . Educational services for residents
Section 990 . Definitions

Editor's note: The provisions of this chapter, effective 1/1/96, and distributed in Register 136, constitute a completely new and comprehensive scheme of regulations for the licensing, operation, and department supervision of child care facilities, residential child care facilities, and foster homes. The changes are the result of the enactment of ch. 124, SLA 1994, which completely rewrote AS 47.35 effective January 1, 1996. These new provisions replace former 7 AAC 50.001 - 7 AAC 50.999. The history line at the end of each new section does not reflect the history of those replaced provisions before 1/1/96, nor is the section numbering for the new provisions related to the numbering before that date. Provisions that, before Register 136, appeared at 7 AAC 50.900 - 7 AAC 50.999 were relocated as of Register 136, to appear as 7 AAC 53.900 - 7 AAC 53.999.

As of Register 154 (July 2000), the provisions of 7 AAC 50 relating to child care facility licensing were relocated by the regulations attorney under AS 44.62.125 (b)(6) to 4 AAC 62 in accordance with ch. 58, SLA 1999. The regulations attorney made certain technical edits in some of the remaining sections of the chapter to reflect the transfer.

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